Tuesday, January 4, 2011

I just posted about my amazing breakfast experience in San Francisco so it's only fair I should post about my favorite one in Puerto Vallarta: Colleen's Breakfast Cafe. Colleen is a gal from Edmonton who has moved to Mexico to escape the cold and set up a little breakfast cafe in a restaurant that at night is called The Swedes (a lovely 2 level affair, have drinks upstairs and dinner down, the focus is of course Swedish food, don't ask questions just go, it was one of the best meals of my trip). Colleen won my heart the first time I met her when she went on a toot about how she hated raisins in her cinnamon rolls. Neil has been telling me for the 24 years we have been together the same thing, so the first place I took Neil when he arrived was Colleen's where she makes amazing cinnamon roll french toast from her own house with no raisins.

Above is the room during the day. It's one flight up in this cute little building on a hill.
We always sat by the window, leisurely sipping coffee and watching the street come alive as you finish off your last mouthful of banana bread french toast. Also house made. My favorite thing at Colleen's were the Chilaquiles.

Below are some not so great pictures taken in the same space at night when it is transformed into The Swedes, where a predominately gay male clientele packs the place.

4 comments:

I used to eat at her other restaurant at La Terraza Inn in Vallarta, since she moved, she kind of fell off my breakfast radar, so thanks for the reminder. If you ever get to Vallarta again, contact me, I will show you a few hidden gems!

I concur about Colleen. I have known her via her brekkies as she has roamed PV's SouthSide. She is cool and her food is marvelous. On an aside, how did you deal with Bobby and Paula both of whom I find so totally obnoxious on their shows, an immediate channel changer?

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Urbanfoodguy aka Mark Owen Self taught cook with an environmental/political bent. 28 years of cooking experience. I live in Manhattan on the Lower East Side in an apartment with an amazing kitchen thanks to my partner of 21 + years, Neil. In the last 4 years I have focused more and more on food. It started at the same time as I was about to open up my import/retail business LaoLao Handmade. Over these years I have been a private chef, catering and 4 years of Food Styling. I've worked for most of the major food magazines such as : Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Oprah, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food and many more. Check out this site for some photos of my work. I've also worked in the prep kitchen for the Food Network with Bobby Flay and Paula Dean.